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Global Civil Society: Contested Futures

Global Civil Society: Contested Futures

Baker, Gideon
Chandler, David

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Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Pol

General Political ScienceGeneral SociologyInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0415429781
ISBN13: 9780415429788
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 22 2006
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

For many commentators, global civil society is revolutionising our approach to global politics, as new non-state-based and border-free expressions of political community challenge territorial sovereignty as the exclusive basis for political community and identity. This challenge 'from below' to the nation-state system is increasingly seen as promising nothing less than a reconstruction, or a re-imagination, of world politics itself. Whether in terms of the democratisation of the institutions of global governance, the spread of human rights across the world, or the emergence of a global citizenry in a worldwide public sphere, global civil society is understood by many to provide the agency necessary for these hoped-for transformations. Global Civil Society asks whether this idea is such a qualitatively new phenomenon after all; whether the transformation of the nation-state system is actually within its reach; and what some of the drawbacks might be.

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